Egyptian and Greek pre-philosophical thought: an experience of comparative analysis in the modern foreign Egyptology and classical studies

The article focuses on some philosophical aspects of comparative analysis of ancient Egyptian and Greek thought, such as a question of the possibility of Egyptian influence in Hesiod's "Theogony" and attempts of the historical and philosophical analysis of categories "Maat" and "Dike" in modern Egyptology and Classical Studies, particularly in the papers of V.A. Tobin, J. Assmann, C.A. Faraone, E. Teeter, M. Bernal.

pre-philosophy, Maat, Dike, Metis, Hesiod, theogony, royal ideology, mythology